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Privacy and the Digital State: Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy

(Alan Charles Raul The devastating and reprehensible acts ...)

Alan Charles Raul The devastating and reprehensible acts of terrorism committed against the 11, 2001 have greatly affected our lives, our United States on September livelihoods, and perhaps our way of living. The system of government embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights was designed to inhibit excessively efficient government. By imposing checks and balances against over-reaching governmental power, the Founders intended to promote the rule of laws, not men - and to protect the prerogatives of citizens over and above their rulers. No faction was to become so powerful that the rights and interests of any other groups or individuals could be easily trampled. Specifically, the Framers of our constitutional structure prohibited the government from suppressing speech, inhibiting the right of free association, of people, conducting unreasonable preventing (peaceful) assemblies searches and seizures, or acting without observing the dictates of due process and fair play. After September 11, there is a risk that the philosophical protections of the Constitution could appear more than a trifle "academic. " Indeed, our tradional notions of "fair play" will be sorely tested in the context of our compelling requirements for effective self-defense against brutal, evil killers who hate the very idea of America. Now that we witness the grave physical dangers that confront our families, friends, neighbors, and businesses, our commitment to limited government and robust individual liberties will of our inevitably - and understandably - be challenged.

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Career

Law clerk to judge The United States of America Court Appeals (District of Columbia circuit), Washington, 1980-1981. Associate Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York City, 1981-1986. Associate counsel to President The White House, Washington, 1986-1988.

Member American Bar Association (chairman committee on national security and international law 1990-1992, council section international law and practice 1992-1998, standing committee on election law 1995-1999, section international law and practice government affairs officer 1996-1998, council section administrative law and regulatory practice 2004-2005), Association of Bar of City of New York (chairman subcommittee on Center American issues 1985, member committee on inter-American affairs 1983), Federalist Society (member national practitioners advisory council, chair environmental and property rights practice group 1996-1999), Council on Foreign Relations.